SGER: Information Retrieval and Exchange under Extreme Pressure

在过去几年的重大灾难中，危机管理组织（CMO）因其不理想的表现而受到批评。为了让应急响应者在极端的时间限制和心理压力下做出正确的决策，有必要开始了解应急响应者的信息检索和交换行为，并将信息追溯到哪个CMO生产和消费什么类型的信息，他们如何互动，以及促进为紧急响应者开发更容易接受的信息交换系统。这笔赠款将开始分析各种信息检索和交换行为的过程。假应急演习这些是将在鹿特丹港进行的荷兰COPI（指挥官位置事件小组）演习。美国的研究将从演习参与者那里收集数据，这些数据将揭示以下几个方面之间的关系：a）信息的价值和最佳决策时机的价值，B）对共享信息系统的控制和信息质量的评估，c）紧迫的公共安全需求和敏感信息的安全，以及d）在严重压力下信息的（分散）聚合和（分散）信息处理。这笔赠款将支持与荷兰研究人员谁可以访问国际研究伙伴关系的发展？组织灾害响应演习（即，COPI）于2007年12月、2008年2月和2008年5月举行。智力价值这项研究将建立一个基础（即，信息和关系的分类和缩放方案），用于更大的、可能具有变革性的研究，这些研究可以从根本上改变CMO共享信息的方式。未来的研究将为自适应应急响应信息交换（ERIX）系统开发机制和协议。所设想的系统可以确保一个令人满意的水平的利息？在极端压力条件下的组织信息共享，并有助于在相关CMO之间建立信息交换关系，即使CMO以前从未共享过他们的信息。拟议的研究将提供初始参数（例如，分类，度量，紧急信息和组织关系的属性）和可行性措施的变革性研究，信息系统的应急反应也可以通过纳入本项目的研究结果得到改善。广泛的影响将收集的数据下，这笔赠款将有助于更好地了解信息流和相关的决策在危机管理和反应竞技场。我们对这些主题的知识和理解的扩展显然有利于更广泛的社会;研究的国际方面只会使这一点更具吸引力。

Crisis Management Organizations (CMOs) have been criticized for their less-than-ideal-performance through the major disasters of the past few years. In order for emergency responders to make right decisions under extreme time constraints and psychological pressure,it is necessary to begin to understand the information retrieval and exchange behaviors of emergency responders, and trace the information back to find out which CMO produces and consumes what types of information, how they interact, and what facilitates developing more readily acceptable information exchange systems for emergency responders.This grant will begin the process of analyzing information retrieval and exchange behavior in various pseudo emergency response exercises. These are Dutch COPI(Commander Place Incident Team) exercises that will be conducted in the Port of Rotterdam. The US research will collect data from participants of the exercises, which will shed light on relationships between a) the value of information and the value of optimal decision timing, b) control over shared information systems and valuation of information quality, c) immediate public safety needs and security of sensitive information, and d) (dis)aggregation of information and (de)centralization of information processing under severe pressure. This grant will support the development of an international research partnership with Dutch researchers who have access to the inter?organizational disaster response exercises (i.e., COPI) in Dec. 2007, February 2008 and May 2008.Intellectual MeritThis research will build a foundation (i.e., categorization and scaling schemes for information and relationships) for larger, potentially transformative research that can fundamentally change the way that CMOs share information. Future research will develop mechanisms and protocols for an adaptive Emergency Responder Information Exchange (ERIX) system. The envisaged system can ensure a satisfactory level of inter?organizational information sharing in extreme pressure conditions and help establish information exchange relationships among relevant CMOs, even if the CMOs have never shared their information before. The proposed research will provide initial parameters (e.g., taxonomy, metrics, attributes of emergency information and organizational relationships) and feasibility measures to the transformative research, Information systems for emergency responders can also be improved by incorporating findings from this project.Broad ImpactThe data to be collected under this grant will contribute to a better understanding of the flow of information and related decisions in the crisis management and response arena. Expansion of our knowledge and understanding of these topics clearly stand to benefit the broader society; this is only made more appealing by the international aspects of the research.